Lockbox missing ! - Post ID 236611

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Been using it for years -- never a problem -- I booted up today, had a warning from Avast anti virus about Lockbox and now it's missing, Is not in the taskbar as always and can't find the program exe in windows explorer. I have been using the free version for 20 years probably and never updated.

I do have a pw.pwk file in my backup -- hopefully that will save me.

WTF happened? This is alarming for obvious reasons. Thanks for assistance.
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I did just see it in my Avast scan log -- I clicked restore and exclude so I'll see if that fixes it.
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I restored it to the proper folder and tried to start the program, can't find Lockbox.exe with a suspicious item detected.


Win32: Evo-gen (suspicious item) ?
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Hiya Mike,

This is a user to user forum so I would suggest you open a support topic to get assistance for this. Good luck as it does sound like Avast uninstalled it on you. Let us know if/when you get it fixed up though :)
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will the latest version of lockbox handle the pw.pwk file? I'll assume that is the data file or better be because it's the only file left in the folder.
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Jo Ann wrote:
Hiya Mike,

This is a user to user forum so I would suggest you open a support topic to get assistance for this. Good luck as it does sound like Avast uninstalled it on you. Let us know if/when you get it fixed up though :)

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